How to recover my lost notes

Try this: I thought I'd lost my notes, too. I also have an iPad mini, and noticed the notes app icon and clicked on it. What was more obvious on the iPad was that there are different accounts; in other words, it had different sets of notes saved under different email accounts.My missing notes were saved under my icloud account, although I didn't consciously ever put the notes under any separate account. They were visible when I clicked "All Notes," too. It turns out that the phone had a different account set as the default. I changed the default on the iPhone, and there they were. I took screen shots so the notes are saved in my photos, too. This was a lot easier than checking through a lot of backups. I hope that helps. I will post this on a couple of threads I see in Apple communities. I see it's a pretty common problem.

The same exact thing happened to me and i can't retrieve them either. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

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I too went into my email account and checked the Notes folder only to see that what I was looking for was also deleted from this place. But, if like me, you have your account to setup to Archive instead of actually delete, they're still in there. So I went to the Email Search Bar at the top, typed in a word from the Note for which I was looking, hit Search/Enter and there in that list of results I found the missing Note. It took me minute to figure out how to get it back into my Notes folder. The simplicity of it stumped me for a moment;

Open the document, then simply click on the Label tab (has picture of tag on it) at the top, and select the Notes label. The document in question will immediately be moved to your Notes folder on both your computer and your phone.

I hope this was helpful.

I too went into my email account and checked the Notes folder only to see that what I was looking for was also deleted from this place. But, if like me, you have your account to setup to Archive instead of actually delete, they're still in there. So I went to the Email Search Bar at the top, typed in a word from the Note for which I was looking, hit Search/Enter and there in that list of results I found the missing Note. It took me minute to figure out how to get it back into my Notes folder. The simplicity of it stumped me for a moment;

Open the document, then simply click on the Label tab (has picture of tag on it) at the top, and select the Notes label. The document in question will immediately be moved to your Notes folder on both your computer and your phone.

I hope this was helpful.

Try clicked "All Notes", maybe your missing notes were just saved under other account and you didn't notice that you put the notes under any separate account.

If your notes actually get lost, you can recover lost iPhone notes from backups (iTunes/iCloud). You can follow the official guide for more details:

Restore your device from an iCloud or iTunes backup - Apple Support

If these solution still cannot work out, I think your notes were gone forever.

thanks. I found my notes in gmail. You saved me lots of memories i was about to loose.

cheers

Thank you! This helped me 🙂

Thank You i found it in the mail note folder... I solve my problem

Fantastic!!!! This worked. Thank you so much.

Thank you, this method helped greatly...only issue we ran into is that the customer forgot his yahoo mail login lol but he is on a good path to getting that sorted out. Thanks again!!

I had the same problem and have been stumped for months so thank you very much for this answer about recovering lost notes, but I do have an additional question. My lost notes were under my email but as far as any new notes they are not in my email box, they are however on Icloud but I have not changed anything on my phone so I am wondering why any new notes that I make are not under my email as being backed up there??? Thank You

Thank you so much for alerting to the saved notes in email file called Notes! I lost 1 year (only the most recent year) during an IOS upgrade and thought these notes were gone forever. I will now follow the instructions given to save these "lost" notes to my computer. I love you!!

Hey guys,

Any idea when the default mail is on Outlook? Cause I can't find this anywhere... Devastated!

Login your primary email id (Email id set up during your iPhone set up). Go to My Folder > click on NOTE. You will find all your note in it. Be happy.....:D